Political Remix Videos

This mash-up of mass media images from movies and TV was put together by the Media Education Foundation as part of a media criticism video called “Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity“. MEF is one of the few big organizations, that I have found, who rely heavily on the fair-use of corporate owned footage in their video projects. Below is the intro from that film mixed with a new beginning and ending message added by a youtube user.

I would love to find more Political Remix Videos like this one, that deal with race gender and sexuality in the media and our society as a whole. If anyone knows of others please forward the links.

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An enlightening mash-up video project on the portrayal of masculinity in Disney animated movies by Sanjay Newton that appropriates footage from those films to illustrate narrated audio criticisms on the issue. This mash-up would fall into the category of educational remix so it has a very different feel than many of the other videos posted on this blog so far.

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Another Star Wars themed remix found on youtube, this one taking the audio of Obi Won Kenobi’s famous monologue in A New Hope: Episode 4 where he explains The Empire to a young Luke Skywalker and mixing it with footage of the Bush Administration and it’s War in Iraq. Here also is another slightly different version of this mash-up.

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One of many Star Wars themed Political Remix Videos, this one by Chris Campbell and uses the Star Wars movies combined with Fox News footage of the US invasion of Iraq and George Bush’s “State of the Union” speech to create a “Sate of the Empire”.

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A remix from 1992 called Read My Lips attacking George H. W. Bush on a range of issues. It was shown on MTV during the American presidential election campaign of that year. Following the video is a discussion about the mash-up on the Bill Moyers PBS program also in 1992. 

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Another remix by ATMO films in their Read My Lips mashup series. In this one they carefully cut up and digitally manipulate George W Bush’s Iraq invasion speech to make him slowly lip sync to the voice of a hypnotist putting us, the viewers and public, to sleep. He asks us to “just let go”.

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A remix from Minitrue.com of George Bush’s infamous “Victory in Iraq” aircraft carrier landing speech that also mixes in a bit of footage and imperial music from the Star Wars movies.

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